On Oct 15, 2023, at 12:51 PM, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> One thing I keep running into is the downside of everyone creating their own vocabularies. It's easy enough to do, but 1) not everyone has a namespace they can use and 2) even if they have a namespace there is the maintenance problem. How will we maintain all of these vocabularies in a massively shared environment? (I recently had to dig around to find the person who could revive vocab.org -- some very useful vocabularies but the namespace had expired.) It is telling that W3C began to offer a "universal namespace" for vocabularies but quickly decided to pull back on that. DC is currently acting as the archive for BIBO and FOAF, but I'm not sure how sustainable that is.


  Yep, a veritable Tower of Babel. --Eric Morgan (University of Notre Dame)